diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
index efade47e6..56cb68f7b 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
@@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ and defines some attributes and methods:
 How to run our spider
 ---------------------
 
-To put our spider to work, go to the project's top level directory and run::
+To put our spider to work, go to the project's top level directory, the one
+that contains :file:`scrapy.cfg`, and run::
 
    scrapy crawl quotes